Dispensing assembly with nozzle storage

Abstract

A dispensing assembly including an internally pressurized container of viscous liquid which may be dispensed through a hollow stem by deflecting the directing tube and stem to open a valve and cause liquid to flow out through an outlet opening in the directing tube. An overcap having a cavity adapted to receive the stem and directing tube releasably engages the container and has at least one, and preferably two, sockets along its inner surface for storing elongate hollow tapered application nozzles. The application nozzles have inlet ends adapted for engagement around the outlet opening on the directing tube so that the nozzles can be used to apply the liquid as it is discharged from the container.

We claim: 
     
       1. A dispensing assembly comprising: an internally pressurized container of viscous liquid;   valve means mounted on said container including a hollow projecting stem having an outlet opening, said valve means retaining said liquid within said container when said stem is in a central position, and allowing flow of the pressurized liquid from the container through said stem when the stem is pivoted relative to the container about the end of the stem adjacent the container;   means engaged with said stem and having an outlet opening for directing liquid discharged from said stem;   an elongate hollow application nozzle having a through opening, an inlet end adapted for engagement with said means for directing with said outlet opening communicating with said through opening, and an outlet end opposite said inlet end; and   an overcap comprising a wall having an inner surface defining a cavity adapted to receive said means for directing and having a lip defining an inlet opening to said cavity, said lip being adapted to releasably engage said container with said means for directing received in said cavity, said wall of said overcap having a socket along said inner surface, and said nozzle being releasably retained within said socket.   
     
     
       2. A dispensing assembly according to claim 1 further including means for sealing said outlet opening. 
     
     
       3. A dispensing assembly according to claim 1 wherein said wall has at least one elongate surface portion partially defining said cavity and extending longitudinally at generally a right angle with respect to said lip, and said wall includes spaced retaining wall portions projecting from opposite sides of said elongate surface portion into said cavity and being more closely adjacent at their distal ends than at their proximal ends, and a detent extending transverse of the elongate surface portion at its end adjacent said lip with said elongate surface portion and retaining wall portions defining said socket with said nozzle being releasably retained along said surface portion by said retaining wall portions and detent. 
     
     
       4. A dispensing assembly according to claim 3 wherein said overcap includes two sockets each defined by an elongate surface portion partially defining said cavity extending longitudinally at generally a right angle with respect to said lip, and said wall includes spaced retaining wall portions projecting from opposite sides of both of said elongate surface portions, which retaining wall portions adjacent each of said elongate surface portions are more closely adjacent at their distal ends than at their proximal ends, and a detent extending transverse of each elongate surface portion at its end adjacent said lip; and said assembly includes two of said elongate hollow nozzles each releasably retained along a different one of said elongate surface portions by said retaining wall portions and said detent. 
     
     
       5. A dispensing assembly according to claim 1 wherein said means for directing further includes a hollow generally L-shaped directing tube having an inlet portion frictionally engaged over said stem, an outlet portion disposed at an obtuse angle with respect to said inlet portion and having a distal end defining said outlet opening, said outlet portion being adapted to be frictionally engaged by the inlet end of said tapered nozzle; and a pressure plate on the side of said inlet end portion opposite said outlet end portion adapted for manual engagement to move said directing tube and thereby said stem to open said valve means and afford flow of liquid from said container through said outlet opening. 
     
     
       6. A dispensing assembly according to claim 5 further including a cover movable from a position over said outlet opening and frictionally engaging said outlet portion and a position spaced from said outlet portion. 
     
     
       7. A dispensing assembly according to claim 1 wherein said overcap further includes a hanger portion at its end opposite said lip, said hanger portion having a through opening adapted to receive a support member from which said dispensing assembly may be hung when said overcap is engaged with said container.